Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

We live in ignorance in the darkness. But the light of the truth set us free.

True leaders are ready to sweat when making rehearsal, than to cry tears when actually practicing. To save the tears, be ready to sweat!

I turn my head so that he doesn't see my smile and secretly curse him for making me feel special.

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

Stick to life, just like a baby sticking to a candy!

They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

But I think the more you eat healthy clean foods the more you create them.